The Department of Education is to write to all of Ireland's same-sex schools following its decision that an all-boys' VEC in Cork must offer a place to a girl who wants to attend the school.
The Department ruled yesterday that the Nagle Community College's enrollment policy "did not explicitly state that the college is a boys-only college".
The girl had been refused entry to the Mahon school because of her gender.
Her mother appealed to the Department of Education under section 29 of the Education Act, 1998, which allows the department to force a school to enrol a pupil.
Speaking to RTÉ radio this afternoon, Minister for Education Batt O'Keefe said the Department would now write to the country's same-sex schools to seek to ensure that they "signal quite clearly in their enrolment policy and indeed in their prospectus that they are [a] single-sex education entity".
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